Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Topics: Longing Quotes, Truth Quotes

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing...

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing...

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of...

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of...

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me...

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me...

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad...

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad...

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we...

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we...

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a...

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a...

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect...

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect...

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by...

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by...

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those...

The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those...

If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to...

If government have a right of demanding ad libitum and of taxing us themselves to...

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.